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Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum
Rachel Barenbaum
123 episodes
6 days ago
From New Hampshire Public Radio and the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire, Check This Out is a literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.
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From New Hampshire Public Radio and the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire, Check This Out is a literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.
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Fiction
Arts,
Books
Episodes (20/123)
Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum
Ep. 151 NHPR Callie Hart: BRIMSTONE
The romantasy series that began with “Quicksilver” is back with “Brimstone.” Originally self-published, the series has been picked up by a traditional publisher and is back with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences.
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6 days ago
49 minutes

Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum
Ep 150 NHPR Quiara Alegría Hudes: THE WHITE HOT
Told as a letter from mother to daughter, this luminous novel explores a moment of abandonment that stretches from ten days to ten years—and reshapes a family forever.
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1 week ago
51 minutes

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Ep. 149 NHPR Katie Yee and Vanessa Lillie: Maggie or A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar and The Bone Thief
Maggie: Or A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar - When a young mother’s life unravels after a divorce and a cancer diagnosis, she spins her pain into sharp, comedic fiction that’s equal parts heartbreaking and hilarious.   The Bone Thief - When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town, a place with dark ties to an elite historical society, archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate.
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2 weeks ago
50 minutes

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Ep. 148 NHPR Rickey Fayne: THE DEVIL THREE TIMES
In this debut novel, eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee are visited by the Devil himself, each offered a different kind of salvation—while he wonders if redemption is possible for him, too.
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3 weeks ago
50 minutes

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Ep. 147 NHPR Addie E. Citchens: DOMINION
A Southern Black family drama unfolds as long-held secrets about a beloved son surface, shaking the foundation of a Mississippi town.
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1 month ago
49 minutes

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Ep. 146 NHPR Xenobe Purvis: THE HOUNDING
Based on a strange historical anecdote, this novel tells the story of five sisters in18th-century England whose neighbors become convinced they’re turning into dogs.
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1 month ago
50 minutes

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Ep. 145 NHPR Ruben Reyes and Zibby Owens: ARCHIVE OF UNKOWN UNIVERSES
With Ruben we see a genre-blending, speculative historical novel about revolution and empire, following two families across alternate timelines of the Salvadoran civil war. Plus, a look into the publishing world with Zibby Owens. 
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1 month ago
49 minutes

Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum
Ep. 144 NHPR Jennifer L. Armentrout: THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE
“Romantasy” titles from indie presses, along with their enormous fan bases on BookTok, are reshaping the publishing landscape. Jennifer Armentrout is proving that the next giant of fiction doesn’t need a giant publisher. This is the sixth book in the Blood and Ash series- all published by a tiny Indie press that is taking publishing by storm.
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1 month ago
45 minutes

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Ep. 143 NHPR Maria Reva: ENDLING
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey involving kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail.
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2 months ago
50 minutes

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Ep. 142 NHPR Lucas Schaefer: THE SLIP
A novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.
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5 months ago
50 minutes

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Ep. 141 NHPR Aaron John Curtis: OLD SCHOOL INDIAN
A coming-of-middle-age novel full of humor and grief. When Abe Jacobs is faced with an unthinkable diagnosis, he follows his fragile hope for a cure to the Mohawk Rez where he grew up. In his family’s hands, Abe just might find hope.
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5 months ago
50 minutes 11 seconds

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Ep. 140 NHPR Rob Franklin: GREAT BLACK HOPE
A young Stanford graduate caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.
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5 months ago
50 minutes 11 seconds

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Ep. 139 NHPR Emma Pattee: TILT
Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. All she can do is try to walk home. We follow her journey across a transformed city as she reflects on her life and re-considers hope for the future.
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6 months ago
49 minutes 34 seconds

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Ep. 138 NHPR Jemima Wei: THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER
In this debut novel, two sisters are betrayed and violently estranged. They must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love and home versus the outside world. An exploration of family bonds in a story of sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.
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6 months ago
49 minutes 27 seconds

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Ep. 137 NHPR Colwill Brown: WE PRETTY PIECES OF FLESH
A coming of age novel about working-class female friendship, set in the schoolyards, nightclubs, and alleyways of a gritty, post-industrial town in Yorkshire, England. Three girls are inseparable, their friendship as indestructible as they are, but as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.
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6 months ago
49 minutes 53 seconds

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Ep. 136 NHPR Sameer Pandya: OUR BEAUTIFUL BOYS
Three star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student. Their secrets, and the secrets of their parents, threaten to shatter their entire community in a novel of race, class, and privilege.
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6 months ago
49 minutes 37 seconds

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Ep. 135 NHPR Tova Mirvis: WE WOULD NEVER
Inspired by a true story, “We Would Never” is a gripping murder mystery and an intimate family drama. It explores the issues of loyalty, betrayal, and the blurred line between protecting and forsaking the ones we love most.
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6 months ago
49 minutes 58 seconds

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Ep. 134 NHPR Julie Iromuanya: SEASON OF LIGHT
When 276 schoolgirls are abducted from their school in Nigeria, a Florida-based lawyer and former POW of the Nigerian Civil War is consumed by memories of his younger sister who went missing during that conflict. “A Season of Light” explores the shaky promise of the immigrant American dream and a family struggling with intergenerational trauma.
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7 months ago
50 minutes 1 second

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Ep. 133 NHPR Callan Wink: BEARTOOTH
Two brothers are living off the grid on the edge of Yellowstone. In dire straits and desperate for money, they accept a dangerous proposition that permanently alters their lives and their relationship to each other. 
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7 months ago
50 minutes 2 seconds

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Ep. 132 NHPR Olivia Wolfgang-Smith: MUTUAL INTEREST
A novel about marriage and ambition, sexuality and secrecy, and the true costs of building an empire. “Mutual Interest” explores the lives of “three queer misfits turned business titans” during the Gilded Age with immersive period detail and compelling emotional stakes.
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7 months ago
48 minutes 16 seconds

Check This Out with Rachel Barenbaum
From New Hampshire Public Radio and the Howe Library in Hanover, New Hampshire, Check This Out is a literary series where host Rachel Barenbaum dives deeply into the works of emerging and diverse authors.